Blizzard: StarCraft II Development Did Not Cost $100 Million

The Wall Street Journal ran a story last week reporting that StarCraft II cost upwards of $100 million to make. It turns out that figure was reported in error, as Blizzard PR just sent out a mass email correcting the WSJ article.

"Blizzard Entertainment has never disclosed the development cost of StarCraft II, and for competitive reasons, we will not do so," reads the Blizzard communique, noting that the $100 million number cited by the WSJ refers to World of Warcraft's development costs -- not StarCraft II's.

The Journal has since addressed the error on the Corrections and Amplifications of their website. Move along, nothing to see here.

this article is wrong in so many ways...

Starcraft 2 has been in development for many many years. Blizzard and activision merged long after the start of sc2. The wsj article claimed activision put $100 million into sc2. The title of this article states that sc2 didn't cost $100 million. Two totally different things. GJ on fail titles once more 1up.